Tanya Monique Jewelry and Object Maker, Pawtucket, RI
Pawtucket Providence County RI
Tanya Crane earned her MFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BFA in Metal from SUNY New Paltz. She is a Professor of the Practice in Metals at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. In 2024, she was named a United States Artist Fellow in Craft. In 2023, she became part of the Center for Craft’s inaugural Teaching Artist Cohort and received The Doris Prouty Foundation Artist Grant, supporting BIPOC/AAPI women artists in Massachusetts and North Carolina.
Tanya has also won several awards, including the 2018 Society of North American Goldsmiths Emerging Artist award and the 2017 Society of Arts and Crafts-Boston Artist Award. She had a solo exhibition, Tributaries: Polarity, Exposing the Tensity, at the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.
Her work is part of collections at the Springfield Museum of Art, Racine Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Crocker Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Enamel Arts Foundation, and the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis.
